Pardon my French
Subtitle: unleash your inner Gaul
By: Charles Timoney
Edition: 1st trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Gotham
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781592404629
Subjects: Description and travel; French language; French National characteristics; Travel
Description: From getting the best value from the boulangerieto ordering a steak without getting sneered at, an A-to-Z guide to fitting in en Français Englishman Charles Timoney was thrown into French life headfirst twenty-five years ago when he and his wife moved to her native France. He had studied French in school, but his memory of vocabulary lists and conjugation drills proved no match for day-to-day living. As he blundered his way toward fluency, he kept a list of words and phrases that wonderfully (sometimes wickedly) epitomized aspects of the French culture and were used only by native speakers.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Food and drink; title: Country, and how to get about it; title: Education; title: Entertainment and sport; title: Paperwork; title: Calender year; title: How to sound French; title: Historical matters and perfidious albion; title: Young people(and their slag); title: Relations (family and others); title: Day-to-day life; title: Business world.